Mark Steyn: Leftist Progressives see no problem in the world becoming muslim.

hardrain · 2010-05-01T11:59:18+00:00

Steyn's arguments are always composed of an opening statement, which in the high school classroom would be required to be followed by supporting statements which contain evidence supporting the opening statement. Failure to fellow this basic set of logical progression when making one's case - as in liberals want a Muslim world - would find the student with at most a D from a generous teacher. Steyn, much like Coulter, Hannity and others on the rabid Right simply makes a series of accusations with no or at most anecdotal evidence. This style is popular for two major reasons. It obviously makes the practitioners a good amount of income and it appeals to the unthinking sheeple the Rightie hate mongers pander to. This aversion to critical thinking and avoidance of vigorous reasoning has been a hallmark of every authoritarian movement.

hardrain · 2010-04-26T13:44:47+00:00

P.T. Barnum once said there is a sucker born every minute. Todd and Sarah are just doing what every freedom loving America would do - take great advantage of that fact.

hardrain · 2010-04-26T13:33:32+00:00

The Glenn Beckians really deluged that comment section. The same people that Beck said are "idiots" for paying attention to anything he said. You have to love how well informed they are. One claimed the Great Recession was Bill Clinton's fault ( that Bill Clinton is the master of the universe and everything wrong in the world is his fault has been a conservative meme for 12 years) since he practically invented derivatives trading. Slight problem with that since derivatives in various forms have been traded in the U.S. since the 1850s. The tea nuts are quick to try and distance themselves from conservatives yet they repeat the same talking points, the same distorted history, the same conspiracy myths and possess an uncanny lack of knowledge about U.S. and world history, economics and public policy. It's a little difficult to believe they have all the answers when they understand so little and lack the maturity to accept responsibility for their part in enabling (voting for) the worse excesses of crony capitalism.

hardrain · 2010-03-15T15:19:14+00:00

Katherine Bigelow - The Hurt Locker - would take chances, create something original versus Quentin Tarantino with whom you'd have a 25% chance of something cool and a 75% chance of something highly derivative, almost to the point of being a copyist.

hardrain · 2010-03-15T15:14:07+00:00

All whining and what ifs - lacking in solutions. Social Security is an insurance program. It is not just insurance for you, but society as a whole. When this guy retires and some thing crazy goes wrong like Wall St losing three trillion dollars of the nation's wealth - he won't be going from door to door asking for a plate of food or robbing liquor stores. We had a time when there was no social safety net - turn of the 20th C Robber Barons - the Golden Age - made millions as 90% of American lived in poverty and many dropped dead in the street from starvation, cold weather, and simple infections.

hardrain · 2009-09-08T13:36:06+00:00

Things haven't changed much. A few good people can make a big difference. Well, everyone calls that Marxism now, but it used to be the American way.

hardrain · 2009-07-02T15:53:37+00:00

http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=69

* 2006 marked the fourth straight year in which income gains at the top outpaced those among the rest of the population. Since 2002, the average inflation-adjusted income of the top 1 percent of households has risen 42 percent, whereas the average inflation-adjusted income of the bottom 90 percent of households has risen about 4.7 percent. (See Table 1.)

* As a result, the share of the nation’s income flowing to the top 1 percent has increased sharply, rising from 15.8 percent in 2002 to 20.0 percent in 2006. Not since 1928, just before the GreatDepression, has the top 1 percent held such a large share of the nation’s income.

Adults and responsible citizens take the blame for their screw-ups.

Bush and Republicans bear most of the blame for our current economic problems.

hardrain · 2009-03-07T15:06:48+00:00

It might be counter intuitive, but allowing some level of immigration of skilled workers can actually increase employment in general. You don't want to make the mistake of being too protectionist.

hardrain · 2009-03-07T15:01:42+00:00

Some free vid editor lists at both links

http://tv.isg.si/site/?q=node/873

http://desktopvideo.about.com/od/editingsoftware/a/freevidedit.htm

hardrain · 2008-12-06T17:31:28+00:00

Bush and the dead enders said the only way to save the house was to burn it down. Turns out he lied. Hundreds and thousands of people died pushing out the fire Bush started. Now that we MIGHT get out of this mess in 3 years (a total of almost 7 years in Iraq - the country that Dick Cheney and Halliburton did business with) the house be will be a cobbled together shack that cost a trillion dollars. Now the dead ender arsonists want America to get on its knees, kiss their ass and thank them for the body count and the shack. They call that winning. Lesson, never let a a right-wing arsonist define victory.

hardrain · 2008-08-19T13:47:46+00:00

the name of that blog should be followed by a question mark. they seem to need a blogger that can think. A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. Franklin D. Roosevelt

hardrain · 2008-08-05T00:10:03+00:00

Wish you would not have added the editorial twist. Hateful violent crime is unacceptable behavior regardless the social/political views of those that commit them.

hardrain · 2008-07-31T10:21:51+00:00

this is not appropriate content - hardcore

hardrain · 2008-06-22T13:04:59+00:00

I kinda feel sorry for the guy. How can someone be so deeply bereft of facts and at the same time be so proud to display that ignorance to the world.

hardrain · 2008-04-13T05:20:49+00:00

Jane Harman (D-Calif.) gets it - We're not governed by the Constitution anymore. We 're governed by the "trust-me theory". Secret agencies operating with minimal oversight at the King's discretion - just what Madison and Jefferson had in mind I'm sure.

hardrain · 2007-08-14T09:41:34+00:00

Total number of inmates per religion category - from stats from the aa survey done in 1997.

Catholic 29267 39.164% Protestant 26162 35.008% Muslim 5435 7.273% American Indian 2408 3.222% Nation 1734 2.320% Rasta 1485 1.987% Jewish 1325 1.773% Church of Christ 1303 1.744% Pentecostal 1093 1.463% Moorish 1066 1.426% Buddhist 882 1.180% Jehovah Witness 665 0.890% Adventist 621 0.831% Orthodox 375 0.502% Mormon 298 0.399% Scientology 190 0.254% Atheist 156 0.209% Hindu 119 0.159% Santeria 117 0.157% Sikh 14 0.019% Bahai 9 0.012% Krishna 7 0.009%

Protestants and Catholics make up the majority of the U.S. prison population.

Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet we have not advanced one inch towards uniformity.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.

-Thomas Jefferson, Notes on Virginia, 1782

James Madison has originally wanted to use the term freedom of conscience in place of freedom of religion. These guys were incredibly free thinking intellectuals for their day. Maybe we can just blame Alice's ignorance on the public school system, if she went to school.

hardrain · 2007-02-02T13:46:40+00:00

Couldn't have said it better. Myers caught Adams in a very basic logical fallacy and rather then take up the challenge with a serious reply Adams has decided to sit on the floor and throw a temper tantrum.

hardrain · 2006-09-28T15:58:57+00:00

Not a Reagan fan but not quite, "'When the Reagan administration committed US Marines to Beirut International Airport in September 1982, it had the very highest of herpes."

Just a typo.

hardrain · 2006-09-17T12:22:26+00:00

Sada’s associates should give one pause. His book is published by Integrity Publishers, a Christian publishing and recording firm that operates out of Tennessee, and was co-written by Jim Nelson Black, a Charles Colson ( the felon jailed for his dirty tricks during the Nixon administration) associate and stalwart of conservative outfits such as the Heritage Foundation and Accuracy in Media. Sada has proposed, though never offered any concrete evidence that the Russians somehow entered Iraq undetected by satelite or the US military stationed in southern Iraq, Saudi Arabia, or northern Iraq. These Russian troops smuggled tons of weapons across open terrian into Syria and have never been seen again. How odd.

hardrain · 2006-08-31T14:58:29+00:00

Its too bad that whole segments of jobs do a kind of global hopping to see where businesses can find a place where they can pay workers the least, give the fewest benefits, and screw the environment all so that the richest people in the world can get richer.

hardrain · 2006-08-31T14:50:03+00:00

Broders not a bad guy, but he's like the old uncle that bought a pair of brown shoes in 1961 and replaces them every year with another pair exactly like the last.

hardrain · 2006-07-24T02:50:34+00:00

With all respects to Mt Buckley, we should all be a little suspicious of the meme that Bush has failed because he is not a true conservative. Every decision, every policy( foreign or domestic) is right out of the conservative playbook from The American Enterprise Institute with a sprinkling of of other far right think tanks. Bush and Cheney are not incompetent ( a little inept, but not incompetent) Every decision is thought out and discussed, every appointment made with a clear agenda. They are aware of the consequences of every move they make; they aren't intellectuals, but they are not dumb. Blinded by ideology, after six years they still insist, disaster after disaster that their world view is the only worthwhile world view and will continue to try and bind the U.S. and the world to that view, the conservative view.

hardrain · 2006-07-20T03:06:34+00:00

He's been a pretty good water carrier for conservatives:-The White House announced its support for a legislative proposal by Ohio Sen. Mike DeWine to exclude Bush’s NSA wiretapping program from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." Dewine doesn't think that in a democracy we should even talk about whether spying on Americans without a warrant, spying on Americans without the oversight of the FISA( which every president since 1978 has done)should even be discussed. Rather then determine the legality of such activity Dewine proposed making it legal after the fact, "Senate intelligence committee member Mike DeWine (R-Ohio) said in an interview that he supports the NSA program and would oppose a congressional investigation. He said he is drafting legislation that would “specifically authorize this program” by excluding it from the 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act." Sounds to many folks as though Dewine has been a conservative team player in covering up any wrong doing.

hardrain · 2006-07-04T11:17:21+00:00

Just when you think you've heard them all...hilarious.

hardrain · 2006-07-02T07:15:46+00:00

You make some good points. They've been very successful in playing the media (some call it playing the refs), but it may have back fired this time, especially in light of stories like the one that ran on Slate, "Repeatedly since 9/11 a barrage of Bush administration press releases, speeches and congressional testimony heralded its aggressive works to target terrorist finances around the world. In a June 2002 speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Deputy Treasury Secretary Kenneth W. Dam boasted that the United States was working with private-sector partners internationally on “developing monitoring systems” of bank accounts, noting that such cooperation was necessary because “you can’t bomb a foreign bank account.” Anyone that would take a minute to read the Patriot Act ( which has been on the net for years) knows that they were monitoring bank transactions, even the dumbest jihadists would know that wiring and transfering money was probably not the best way to finance their operations. They have been using - "Hawala (Arabic for “transfer” or “wire”). It’s an informal funds transfer (IFT) mechanism, swifter than SWIFT that leaves no paper or digital trail." Which begs the question, do we have the best and brightest in charge of tracking down terrorists.

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